Ok. I have now officially watched this 100 times, and I ALWAYS laugh out loud. Tracey Ullman is so talented that she's really in a category all her own. Utterly priceless.
I thought her new show was really , really funny. the idea of turning Merkel into a comedy character works for me as did Judi Dench as a kleptomaniac . The canned laughter needled once or twice but I laughed a lot.
and she does speak perfect Russian ( watch the film where Putin makes a joke about men always getting what they want in the end, and she knew what he said before the translator had finished) all those years working for the Stasi I expect